RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Unusual localisation of a ventricular septal defect following blunt chest trauma
JF Heart
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP e6
OP e6
DO 10.1136/hrt.86.1.e6
VO 86
IS 1
A1 Pierli, C
A1 Iadanza, A
A1 Del Pasqua, A
A1 Sinicropi, G
YR 2001
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/86/1/e6.abstract
AB A 64 year old man presented with a traumatic ventricular septal defect following blunt chest trauma 40 years before. Echocardiography and left ventriculography were helpful in locating the unusual septal defect, which was subpulmonary. The shunt was small, but the anomalous chronic overload led to right ventricular failure. The surgical correction was thus too late to improve right ventricular function.